The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World / edited by Richard Aldington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962.

Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

American poetry.

English poetry--English-speaking countries.

English-speaking countries.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 22 cm

Edition:

[Revised, Mid-Century edition].

Other Title:

Poetry of the English-Speaking World

Place of Publication:

New York : The Viking Press, 1959.

Notes:

"Original one-volume edition published in 1941."

"Revised, Mid-Century Edition published in 1958 by Viking Press, Inc."

"1300 poems. 375 poets."--Slipcase.

"This revised and enlarged mid-century edition reflects the changes of taste, the advancement of scholarship, the improvements in book design and manufacture that have taken place in the past half-century. The increased length (some fifty additional pages of poems) has dictated this more convenient two-volume format."--Slipcase.

"The additions and revisions in this edition were most kindly undertaken for me by the editorial staff of The Viking Press, assisted by Malcolm Cowley, since pressure of work made it impossible for me to give the time for an adequate revision. Since no two persons ever think alike or choose alike in anthology-making, I leave to them all the responsibility and praise for the alternations and additions from page 1122 on. Richard Aldington."--Note to the Revised, Mid-Century Edition.

Includes indexes.

Blue buckram cloth covered boards with spine stamped and lettered in gold. Top edge stained gold with ribbon bookmark.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy volumes 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy housed in slipcase.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok Los Angeles June 1959".

Potok Collection copy is "Second Printing 1959".

OCLC:

1593411571